[Indy Pendance]

This has been filed properly.

Check out some of the questions they ask.

This is the 24 page survey.

[Servant of the 9]

I don't think congress has any constitutional authority to have the census drones ask more than the number of residents in a structure.

So9

[IronJack]

Ooooooooh! There's a "penalty" if you fail to comply! They'll probably send you to the principal's office or make you write "I love the census" a hundred times on the blackboard.

Shred it.

[markedman]

You should have told them to pound sand. Fascists!

[ElkGroveDan]

Enclosed is a questionnaire and mail it back as soon as possible in the postage-paid envelope.

That is such an awkward sentence. Is it really written that way in the official Federal document?

[mewzilla]

Come and get me, copper.

[Snickersnee]

Another piece of straight-to-the-sh!tcan mail....

[Dog Gone]

I wonder whether anyone has been prosecuted for not responding, or not responding truthfully.

My guess is that the government doesn't want to have that court fight.

[RandallFlagg]

How come I'm never chosen for these things? Like polls. Nobody ever----

Oh wait! I know why now!

Last polling phone call I answered, I responded with the name, "Rush Limbaugh," in the first fifteen seconds. Nobody's called me since.

[teenyelliott]

Enclosed is a questionnaire and mail it back

I seriously hope this letter is a joke. If my government is sending letters with grammatical errors like that, I am ashamed, and they are idiots.

The U.S. Census Bureau chose your address, not you personally

So what are they gonna do to your address if it fails to comply?

[knuthom]

I thought the law said you had to do this every ten years. Not whenever bureaucrats decided they wanted more.

[ElkGroveDan]

I guess the attitudes expressed on this thread help explain why a lot of us never seem to be "represented" in all these gummint studies and research papers.

[FinallyBackInNH]

When "Charles Louis" comes to my door with a U.S. Marshal to collect my response, I MIGHT consider filling it out. Until then...

[gitmo]

Obviously, when COTUS says "10 years" it means twice every decade.

[76834]

My response is as follows:

Stick it and twist it..........

[freedumb2003]

Just lie.

It makes a survey like that a lot of fun

[mewzilla]

This survey collects critical up-to-date information used to meet the needs of communities across the United States. For example, the results from this survey are used to decide where new schools, hospitals and fire stations are needed. This information also helps communities plan for the kinds of emergency situations that might affect you and your neighbors, such as floods and other natural disasters.

They also sell the info to businesses, don't they?

If that's the case, they should pay respondents.

[BulletBobCo]

Did I miss the part that asks how many guns one has and where are they stored?

[Modok]

President George W. Bush nominated Mr. Kincannon for director of the Census Bureau on July 27, 2001 and the Senate confirmed him unanimously on March 13, 2002.

[AndyJackson]

It is worth keeping in mind the recent appeals court decision in Shutz v IRS

we view ourselves today as completing a task begun forty years ago and hold that, absent an effort to seek enforcement through a federal court, IRS summonses apply no force to taxpayers, and no consequence whatever can befall a taxpayer who refuses, ignores, or otherwise does not comply with an IRS summons until that summons is backed by a federal court order. In addition, we hold that if the IRS seeks enforcement of a summons through the courts, those subject to the proposed order must be given a reasonable opportunity to contest the government’s request. If a court grants a government request for an order of enforcement then we hold, consistent with 26 U.S.C. §7604 and Reisman, that any individual subject to that order must be given a reasonable opportunity to comply and cannot be held in contempt, arrested, detained, or otherwise punished for refusing to comply with the original IRS summons, no matter the taxpayer’s reasons or lack of reasons for so refusing.

IOW, if the Census Bureau wants to force compliance, they can seek an order in Federal District Court, and the individual must be given the reasonable opportunity then to comply before any penalties.

Sort of takes the wind out of adminstrative law, but there you are.

[DeFault User]

I don't see anything in the letter or the form that requires you to tell the truth.

If you tell them you're an Hispanic pygmy Druid with a doctorate in Metaphysical Reality, living in a 40 room mansion, how are they to know any different?